In a state of bewilderment one fine day, I asked a group of three mechanical engineers at this company where I was then employed if they could please explain to me the concept of “moment of inertia”.

Explore the moment of inertia tensor of a solid cube using two different methods. This short compares approaches, highlights symmetry, and shows how each method leads to the same tensor—building ...

Fundamental properties of the planet Venus, such as its internal mass distribution and variations in length of day, have remained unknown. We used Earth-based observations of radar speckles tied to ...